NYR DAILY

Adonis: A writer can never be on the side of killing. It is not possible. How can a poet or a painter be on the [same] side as a person with an explosive belt who goes into a school and detonates himself? How? Those are children. How, how do you kill them? It is an unimaginable monstrosity. My brother, if the regime is tyrannical then fight the regime. Do not fight children and schools. It is humiliating. To belong to this world is humiliating.